Company History

Ticket Defenders Professional Corporation is the result of the joining of two historic paralegal companies in Ontario, going back decades. Streetwise Paralegal was a company founded by a retired Waterloo Regional Police Officer, Charlie Nagy. Charlie began the Firm in the early 1980’s, so our roots actually go back well over 30 years. We are in fact older than all but only a few paralegal companies in the Province.

In 1999 Kevin Burrows, a lawyer, purchased Streetwise from Charlie, and hired a retired OPP Officer, Jim Wittig to handle the paralegal side of the Firm. Eventually a former Prosecutor would take Jim’s place, when Mr. Wittig moved on to begin his own independent practice, and then later to work as Provincial Prosecutor.

In 2002, Kevin and his business partner purchased another paralegal firm called Ticket Defence, from Chuck Peltz, a retired Provincial Court Prosecutor who had entered into private practice after retirement from his Prosecutorial Position. Kevin’s former business partner took over the running of the Firm for a number of years until Kevin re-purchased the entire Firm in 2013. That former partner, Ron Harper, is no longer associated with Ticket Defenders Professional Corporation in any way, and has no relationship to Ticket Defenders®*.

Ticket Defenders Professional Corporation is known as one of the big 4 Firms in the Province, and is the most prominent Firm in Southwestern Ontario, focusing on the area between Windsor and Toronto, i.e. the Toronto-Windsor corridor. The Firm also has professional relationships with Law Offices and Paralegal companies all across Ontario and can act on behalf of local clients to ensure that their case can be handled effectively wherever the offence may have occurred.

As you can see, Ticket Defenders®* has always grown and enjoyed strong success, based on solid morals, strong experience, great service and reasonable pricing. We are very proud of our respected reputation and plan to uphold it well into the future. However, don’t just take our word for it: please, take a moment, and read through some of the testimonials from our clients.

Please note that our Firm, and our Firm alone, is the registered trademark holder of the term Ticket Defenders® in Canada. Our company is Ticket Defenders Professional Corporation and we are the original and the only Ticket Defenders® at www.ticketdefenders.ca. Any other company that has incorporated the phrase Ticket Defenders into its Firm name, does so without our consent and is in flagrant violation of our trademark – please report abuses. These companies are seeking to mislead the public by trading on our good name – we have no affiliation whatsoever with any such Firm and they do not represent Ticket Defenders®.

Disclaimer: Please note that the content on this site, including our blog, should not be taken as legal advice and viewing or using the website does not create a Solicitor-Client, nor Paralegal-Client, relationship. We will be pleased to provide you with legal advice on any issue within the scope of our practice if you contact and retain our office on a fee-for-service basis; but no such relationship exists until you have been specifically advised that we have accepted your retainer fee and your case.

* Ticket Defenders® is the registered Canadian Trademark of our Firm: Ticket Defenders Professional Corporation, a subsidiary of Burrows Professional Corporation. Any use by any other company is a violation of Canadian trademark law.